Reading mathematics in early modern Europe studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books / edited by Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh.

Other author Beeley, Philip.
Other author Nasifoglu, Yelda.
Other author Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesMaterial readings in early modern culture
Contents Did Euclid prove Elements I, 12? The early modern debate on intersections and continuity / Vincenzo De Risi -- Numbers and paths : Henry Savile's manuscript treatises on the Euclidean theory of proportion / Robert Goulding -- Reading by drawing. The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in seventeenth-century England / Yelda Nasifoglu -- Interpreting mathematical error : Tycho's problematic diagram and readers' responses / Renee Raphael -- Reading mathematics in the English collegiate-humanist universities / Mordechai Feingold -- Tutor, antiquarian, and almost a practitioner : Brian Twyne's readings of mathematics / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- the origin and development of the Savilian Library / William Poole -- 'A designe inchoate'. Edward bernard's planned edition of Euclid and its scholarly afterlife in late seventeenth-century Oxford / Philip Beeley -- 'The admonitions of a good-natured reader' : marks of use in Georgian mathematical textbooks / Benjamin Wardhaugh -- Instrumental reading : towards a typology of use in early modern practical mathematical texts / Boris Jardine -- 'Several choice collections' in geometry, astronomy, and chronology : using and collecting mathematics in early modern England / Kevin Tracey.
Abstract "By defining and illuminating the distinctive world of early modern mathematical reading, the volume seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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